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ROBERT J. MAGOB, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEYL BOX-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

Application filed July 10, 1911. Serial no. 687,673.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ROBERT J. MAGoR, a subjectof the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of Passaic, in the State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Box-Cars, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

The object of the improvements is to provide a box-car body which shall be, collapsible, that is one in which the roof, sides and ends may be detached from each other in such a way as to be capable of being laid flatwise upon the floor orunder-frame of the car for purposes of shipping.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a box-car embodying the improvements, the view being partly broken away for purposes of clearer illustration. Fig. 2 is asimilar view in end elevation. Fig. 3 is a view in end elevation with the roof, sides, and end detached from the floor and underframe of the car, and, Fig. 4 is a detailed view of the top portion of an end showing a modification.

The car shown in the drawings belongs to that class of box-cars, now well-known and in common use, having a single sheathing along its sides and ends provided with an exterior bracing. In the case of the present drawings this sheathing consists of boards a laid one over the other and dove-tailing as shown in Figs. 2 and 3tightening means being preferably provided to unite said sheathing boards together and permit of their being disassembled and replaced when necessary. These tightening means may consist of rods 7) provided with nuts 0, the lower ends of the rods as shown extending down through the flanges in the side and end channels respectively of the underframe (Z. The

, assembling of the sheathing boards to form a side or an end will be so easily understood from Figs. 2 and 3 as to require no further description here, this formin no part of the present invention. When fully assembled, a bolt may be passed through the sheathing board into the exterior bracing irons e, or several of the same,'around the car. In addition to the irons e which are vertical it may be noted that bracing irons f are preferably to be provided at convenient places along the sides of the car.

The roof of the car has a frame which is formed of two longitudinal irons 9, shown in Figs. '2 and 3 as being angle-irons, and transverse irons h upwardly ar hed toward the center and upon which the longitudinal wooden beams rest which support the roof proper 70. In the present drawings, the transverse members it at the ends are angles, while the intermediate transverse members 71,- as indicated in Fig. 1 are T-irons. These shapes are not particularly essential, but it is preferable that the transverse irons shall have a horizontal flange to present a fiat support for the beams i and a vertical web to impart the proper strength. The longitudinal members 9 have their horizontal flanges turned inward and their vertical flanges pointing downward. Cot-perating with these vertical flanges of the longitudinals g are the vertical flanges of another pair of longitudinal angles Z along the tops of the car sides, said lon gitudinal angles Z being preferably secured to the exterior irons 6 along the sides of the car. The horizontal flanges of the angles Z are turned outwardly and the vertical flanges point upwardly; and these latter when the sides and roof: are in position on the car abutagainst the vertical flanges of the corresponding angles g, being secured thereto along the side of the car by bolts m (Fig. 2). Thus, when the sides and roof are separated, the flanges Z and g serve as stron framing or brace members for the sides and roof respectively and tend to prevent their injury or distortion during transit.

The modification shown in Fig. 4 consists in making the angles Z and g in one integral piece denoted by n. In such a case, upon disassembling, it will be preferable to allow the longitudinal n to remain attached to the roof, and to detach them from the side irons. It will be observed that in either case, the angles Z and g, or the single longitudinal 91, presents the form of a letter Z the upper flange of which points inwardly and the lower flange of which points outwardly, while the intermediate flanges or portion are, substantially vertical.

In collapsing the car, the nuts 0 are removed as well as the bolts 0 which unite the exterior irons e and f to the underframe thus releasing the superstructure from the floor or underframe of the car. Then, or at the same time, the bolts on are removed to disconnect the root from the sides. It will thus be seen that the operation of taking the car body apart, or the converse operation of putting it together, are very simple indeed.

I claim as my invention:

1. A collapsible box car superstructure having an iron secured along each edge of the roof to serve as a frame member to prevent injury and distortion to the roof while detached, and an iron secured along the top of each side serving a similar purpose while the sides are detached, the two irons on the same side of the car fitting together when the roof and sides are in position, and means to unite said two irons on each side when the car is assembled.

2. A collapsible box car superstructure having an angle-plate along each edge of the roof with its horizontal flange directed in wardly'and its other flange directed downwardly, said angle-plate being secured to the roof to serve as a frame member to prevent injury and distortion to the roof While detached, and an angleplate along the top of each side with its horizontal flange directed outwardly and its other flange directed upwardly, said second angle-plate serving as a frame member for the corresponding side while detached, and means to unite the up- Wardly and downwardly projecting flanges on each side when the car is assembled.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT J. MAGOR.

Witnesses:

JOHN W. THOMPSON, LUoIUs E. VARNEY. 

